Star-land: Being Talks With Young People About the Wonders of the Heavens

Name: Star-land: Being Talks With Young People About the Wonders of the Heavens
Author: Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by deaurider, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2019-09-18

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Public domain in the USA.

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Astronomy -- Juvenile literature Cosmology -- Juvenile literature Planets -- Juvenile literature Meteors -- Juvenile literature Comets -- Juvenile literature Solar system -- Juvenile literature Moon -- Juvenile literature

About the author

Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

1840–1913

An Irish astronomer and popular science writer, he helped bring big ideas about the universe to a wide public while also building a distinguished academic career. He is especially remembered for his work at Dunsink Observatory and for books that made astronomy lively and approachable.

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